On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:08 AM X Xiao <laosha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > what's the difference between `go build -ldflags="-s -w"` and `go build` plus > `strip myBinary`? it seems their result is different, sometimes running > `strip` gives me smaller size, then why bother with ldflags?
I just tried a simple hello, world test and running strip produced a larger binary (on amd64 GNU/Linux). I think the results are going to depend on the exact section sizes and alignments. The strip program is of course a general tool, that knows nothing about Go, that produces a new copy of the executable. That said, broadly speaking there shouldn't be any real difference in the final result. You should use whichever works better for you. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcWC58-wzFULkGi48px_bQQw1CFX0dGM9CNeQbB3Dnd%2BZg%40mail.gmail.com.
